(a) The General Assembly finds that the policies and procedures of this subtitle are desirable and socially necessary.
(b) The purposes of this subtitle are to:
(1) timely provide permanent and safe homes for children consistent with their best interests;
(2) protect children from unnecessary separation from their parents;
(3) ensure adoption only by individuals fit for the responsibility;
(4) protect parents from making hurried or ill-considered agreements to terminate their parental rights;
(5) protect prospective adoptive parents by giving them information about prospective adoptees and their backgrounds; and
(6) protect adoptive parents from future disturbances of their relationships with adoptees by former parents.
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